Human rights groups have warned that regime authorities detained dozens of Baha’is in arbitrary arrests, many without charge, and denied them communication with their families or legal counsel.
Warnings of a potential surprise Iranian attack on Gulf States and Israel come as US President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu disagree on how to proceed with Tehran.
The US House of Representatives had blocked three previous war powers resolutions in close votes earlier this year, with near-unanimous support from Republicans.
US President Donald Trump has criticized NATO members for not doing more to help with the US-Israel war with Iran, even threatening to withdraw from the alliance.
While Iran has managed to withstand US and Israeli airstrikes and brought President Donald Trump back to the negotiating table by closing the Strait of Hormuz, it faces a dire situation internally.
"I can think of nothing more important than the fact that we cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon," said Trump.
Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei's order could further frustrate US President Donald Trump and complicate talks on ending the US-Israeli war on Iran.
Chief Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell told CNN that “America’s military is the most powerful in the world and has everything it needs to execute at the time and place of the President’s choosing.”
Foreign fighters and sleeper cells remain a security concern as the group tries to revive its networks after years of territorial collapse.
DIPLOMATIC AFFAIRS: The Iran war is pushing the UAE and Israel into unprecedented cooperation, while Saudi Arabia looks elsewhere to counter Tehran without empowering Jerusalem.
Twenty Iranian sailors returned home after capture by US • Two wounded soldiers see improvement after surgeries • US says removal of UN expert Albanese from sanctions list is not a policy change
